Editorial Quality at Scale: A Reproducible Prose-Review Pipeline

Abstract This paper documents template prose project, the prose-focused exemplar of the Research Project Template (https://github.com/docxology/template). It pairs the template's two-layer architecture with the prose analysis infrastructure (https://github.com/docxology/template/tree/main/infrastructure/prose) (readability metrics, structural outline, editorial quality flags) and the reference validation infrastructure (https://github.com/docxology/template/tree/main/infrastructure/reference) (BibTeX validation), demonstrating that rigorous editorial review can be expressed as a configurable, deterministic pipeline with no novel domain algorithm of its own. A single manuscript/config.yaml defines target grade-level bands, citation-density floors, structural rules (every section has an H1, no heading levels skipped), and bibliography-consistency policy. The pipeline reads the manuscript,